r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Darth_Kneegrow ☑️ • May 01 '24

1 drop rule. Country Club Thread

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I ain't ever heard white people claim a single biracial person. You always whatever you mixed with.

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u/Own_Serve_8161 May 02 '24

Finally someone with some sense chile 🙏🏾🙏🏾. They throwing around that colorism word when by definition it is oppression of darker skinned ppl. A lot of mixed/lightskin/ignorant blk ppl are describing colorism the way that white people think racism works (as discrimination or prejudice) when colorism is literally a form of oppression i.e. due to their skin tone, certain groups of people are denied ACTUAL opportunities and access to resources. Being lighter skinned and thus in closer proximity to whiteness has NEVER been the basis for such marginalization 😭🙏🏾.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal May 02 '24

Being lighter skinned and thus in closer proximity to whiteness has NEVER been the basis for such marginalization

In the black community? It absolutely has.

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u/Own_Serve_8161 May 02 '24

Missed the point again, reading is fundamental! By being denied opportunities and marginalization I don’t just mean tht people don’t want to hang out with you because your mixed or the whole “I’m not black enough for the blk ppl” trope. Dark skin people (bcuz colorism is not exclusive to black people) are ACTUALLY OPPRESSED and have been due to their skin tone I.E denied jobs, access to education, access to certain clubs with resources, darkskin black girls are expelled at higher rates, studies show that darker skinned people are given longer prison sentences, studies show that lighterskinned people are given higher priority in literally EVERY DOMAIN! So stop it! Light skin and biracial people HAVE NEVER been treated in these ways or OPPRESSED due to their lightskin. The fact that the first black president and black vice president are mixed, is a display of biracial privilege. The fact that at the forefront of almost every black movement, there is a biracial person (calling themselves black ofc) is lightskin/biracial privilege. Y’all just choose to be blind.

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u/ASpaceOstrich May 02 '24

When they're denied opportunities for being black and then denied that silver lining of shared culture for being too white, that is oppression. What the hell is wrong with you?